Pope Breaks Silence, Condemns Use of Death Penalty Against Protesters in Iran
By Ahmad Rafat
Pope Francis has condemned Iran’s use of the death penalty against protesters, demanding greater respect for women.
He made the remarks during his annual speech to foreign diplomats accredited to the Vatican on...
ANALYSIS-Iran Executions Quash Protests, Push Dissent Underground
By Parisa Hafezi
DUBAI, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Iran's hanging of protesters -- and display of their lifeless bodies suspended from cranes -- seems to have instilled enough fear to keep people off the streets after months...
France Has Not Ruled Out Declaring Iran’s Revolutionary Guards to Be a Terrorist Group
By John Irish
PARIS, Jan 10 (Reuters) - France's foreign ministry said on Tuesday it had not ruled out the idea that the European Union designate Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation, a day after Germany...
Iran’s Government Sentences Belgian Aid Worker to 40 Years in Prison -Tasnim
DUBAI/BRUSSELS, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Distraught family of a Belgian national held in Iran appealed to their government on Tuesday to do its utmost to get him freed after he was sentenced to 40 years in prison and...
Iran Executions Amount to ‘State Sanctioned Killing’: UN Rights Chief
GENEVA, Jan 10 (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights chief said that the death penalty was being weaponised by Iran's government to strike fear into the population and stamp out dissent, saying the executions amounted to...
EU Summons Iran Ambassador to Voice Outrage at Executions
BRUSSELS, Jan 9 (Reuters) - The European Union summoned Iran's ambassador to the bloc on Monday and told him it was appalled by the executions at the weekend of two Iranians arrested in the course of a violent...
UK Summons Top Iranian Diplomat Following Latest Executions
LONDON, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Britain's foreign minister James Cleverly summoned Iran’s most senior diplomat on Monday after Iranian authorities executed protestors Mohammad Mahdi Karami and Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini.
"Today I have summoned the Iranian Chargé d’Affaires to condemn in...
France Summons Iran Top Diplomat over Executions, Crackdown
PARIS, Jan 9 (Reuters) - The French foreign ministry said on Monday it had summoned Iran's top diplomat in the country after executions over the weekend and the ongoing violent crackdown on protesters in the country.
"He (the...
Canada Imposes Sanctions on 2 Iranian Individuals, 3 Entities
OTTAWA, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Canada is imposing sanctions on two Iranian individuals and three entities over human right violations, the Canadian foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday.
Iran's judiciary has sentenced three more anti-government protesters...
Germany Summons Iranian Ambassador Again over Latest Executions
BERLIN, Jan 9 (Reuters) - German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said she ordered the Iranian ambassador to be summoned once again on Monday to express condemnation of Iran's latest execution of protesters.
"A regime that murders its own youth...
